Trust

The Architecture of Trust

The ancients anchored it in kinship. Modernity anchored it in law. Our digital age anchors it in verification and verified data. Perhaps the future lies not in replacing one anchor with another, but in braiding them — A trust that is both verifiable and humane, both algorithmic and moral, both scalable and soulful. Because in the end, the goal is not merely to make trust work — but to make it worth something.

Eventually, large parts of the internet will be an irradiated area where bots create for bots, while we will be building shelters of trustworthiness, where genuine human connection will be the currency.

Pawel Brodzinski • Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology

We have to raise our guard regarding what we trust. We increasingly have to assume that whatever we receive is not genuine.

Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology

The shift

So what I am proposing is a need for a radical reframe of trustworthy AI in terms of virtue ethics, i.e. to focus on the ways that AI practitioners can cultivate trustworthiness and embody that character in their work. This, I suggest, will ripple out into improved trustworthiness and greater trust in the AI products being built (not just... See more

Bran Knowles • "Why Don't Some People Trust My AI?"

In other words, to trust AI, we have to trust that those responsible for it are committed to being trustworthy as a matter of character because they recognise their responsibility to care for us.

"Why Don't Some People Trust My AI?"

But the deepest form of trust, Potter argues, is when “a prediction of being well-treated... is grounded in a belief not only in the other’s good will toward oneself but in a belief that the other’s good will is part of a more general disposition that extends beyond the context of this particular relationship” (p. 5). In other words, the reason... See more